Host Richard Hentschel discussed several "out in the garden" chores that could be done starting with the removal of spent bulb foliage and continued spraying of fruit trees in the home orchard. Other points covered include lawns, and differences between foliage diseases and chewing insect...
Host Richard Hentschel talks about the impacts of our above normal collection of Growing Degree Days on insect development and uses the Viburnum Leaf Beetle as a typical example. Viburnum Leaf Beetle arrived from Europe some years back and has been a pest in Northeast for several years. More...
Host Richard Hentschel discusses several updates to spring disease spread and insects that are ahead of schedule. Cedar Apple Rust is done putting spores into the air. Pine sawfly and other sawfly larvae are out and have been feeding. Another newer insect is the Viburnum Leaf...
Host Richard Hentschel talks about just a few things we might be able to do outdoors while the weather remains so cool and wet. Vegetables and flowers may develop differently during this time of year with such a different weather pattern. You never want to work in the flower or vegetable garden...
Host Richard Hentschel talks about foliar diseases, especially those that affect our ornamental flowering crabapples and our apple trees in the home orchard. Cedar Apple Rust requires both an evergreen and a deciduous host. Right now, the evergreen side is obvious to spot with jelly-like orange...
Host Richard Hentschel discusses a recent national and Midwest weather pattern report from a number of weather-related organizations and its impacts on crop farming, livestock and horticultural crops, such as fruit tree and vegetable crops. We could be in for another couple of...
Sometimes it is easy to avoid some of our garden pests just by planting the right thing or at the right time. The squash vine borer is a good example. The vine borer prefers certain varieties, so planting other varieties is the easy way to go. Vining types have a better chance to live on...
Richard Hentschel, host of Green Side Up, talks about problems with fruit trees not bearing fruit. There are some good reasons why fruit trees will not flower or will not bear fruit, even if they bloomed and produced the first year you planted them. It can take three to five years...
Host Richard Hentschel notes recent changes in gypsy moth monitoring and treatments for northern Illinois in 2017. A recent news release from the Illinois Department of Agriculture has added Kane, Kendall, Will and LaSalle counties to a gypsy moth quarantine, which already included...
Host Richard Hentschel talks with Russ Higgins, Ag Educator for the University of Illinois. Soil health is becoming much more important more research has been going on in recent years. Keeping micro flora and soil insect populations high is helping keep yields high and nutrient movement slow...
